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Welcome to Saturday's Critters! Hello and Happy Saturday!
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A mish-mash of photos from early August.
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1. Aug 4th my walk with Miney to the lake. I found a Red-eared Slider Turtle and some Canada Geese across the lake.
2. Aug 6th, our walk with Miney on the NCR trail. Hubby was walking with us part of the way.
3. Aug 7th, A local Prettyboy fire road walk with Miney.
4. Aug 8th, another walk to the lake with Miney. We saw some Double-crested Cormorants and the Slider Turtles were a distance away. A Northern Flicker perched high on a tree.
I am sharing a closer look at the Northern Flicker in my yard, they are beautiful birds.
5. Aug 11th, I have been enjoying watching the Ruby-throated Hummingbirds zooming around my yard. The male likes to sit right on top of the feeder, he guards his feeder from all the other hummingbirds.
6. Below are the Monarch Butterfly, the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail and the Black Swallowtail. There are times our buddleia bush is filled with butterflies, looks magical.
The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly sharing a bloom with a Black Swallowtail.
7. Flashback Florida 2017, The Roseate Spoonbill has a long flat spoon-shaped bill. This shot shows just how flat the bill is. The first three photos were taken at Lake Parker Park in Lakeland, Fl.
8. Immature Roseate Spoonbills are a paler pink. Their pink color is derived from their diet. They eat frogs and aquatic insects and very small fish. The next two images were taken at the Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland Fl.
The Roseate Spoonbills lately are showing up up and down the Atlantic Coast. I believe there were 4-5 in Delaware seen at Bombay Hook NWR and 5-6 in Southern Maryland.
Sept 15th, there was some excitement in our neighborhood, with a few of our neighbors helping a public works employee having to fend off a bear. The worker was checking out the health of trees in the watershed when a bear was bluff charging her, my neighbors were out walking their dog and tried helping the worker. We are not sure, maybe the bear had cubs it was protecting. The worker had some scratches from a fall and was driven back to the street in a neighbor's 4 wheeler and a policemen with a gun escorted our neighbors back to the road. We were at lunch with the family and missed all this excitement.
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Welcome to Saturday's Critters! Hello and Happy Saturday!
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I am sharing lots of butterfly images. In August I was seeing so many butterflies, way more than last year. Wildlife sightings around our yard were the white-tailed deer and lots bunny sightings.
1. August 1, while washing dishes at my kitchen sink looking out the window I see a mama deer with her fawn.
2. Aug 2nd, Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly, the Monarch Butterfly and a sweet bunny.
3. This baby bunny hangs out under our blueberry bushes. Adorable, I hope it stays safe!
4. Aug 3rd, I sat on our deck watching for birds and butterflies. I saw lots of butterflies around the buddleia bush.
5. Below is the pretty Eastern Tiger Swallowtailed butterfly.
"Butterflies are not insects, they are self-propelled flowers."
6. I seem to see more of the Black Swallowtail butterflies.
7. Aug 3rd, Miney was funny one day, there were so many butterflies flying around she was barking at them.
"If you smile when you see a butterfly, you have happiness in your soul."
8. Flashback to a 2017 Florida bird, the Snail Kite. We has some great views of this bird at the Circle B Preserve in Lakeland Florida. This sighting of the Snail Kite was a new life bird for me.
The female Snail Kite has the whitish feathers around the face. Juveniles are brown above and streaked brown and buff below, a buffy throat and eyebrow.
I am linking up to Heidrun's Mosaic Monday I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post.
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Welcome to Saturday's Critters! Hello and Happy Saturday!
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A mish-mash I am finally posting photos from the end of July. Photos are from my back yard and of course I share some flashback photos. I have various butterflies and an unknown moth.
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1. I am seeing lots of butterflies at the coneflowers, the Buddleia and our Zinnias flowers. Below is the Fritillary Butterfly.
2. The Swallowtail butterflies are plentiful this summer. They are very pretty to watch visiting out buddleia bushes.
3. The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly is a pretty yellow with black tiger stripes with some red and blue spots
4. The purple coneflowers are growing well this year.
5. An unknown moth on the butterfly bush.
6. Our Crepe Myrtle had some beautiful blooms, the insects love these flowers.
7. Sept 2019, a flashback look at an Iceland bird, the Northern Fulmar. I saw some of these birds roosting on a cliff next to the Seljalandsfoss Waterfall, South Coast Iceland.
The Northern Fulmar, a gull-like seabird. They are neat looking birds with their yellow beak with odd looking nose tubes.
Seljalandsfoss Waterfall
Bonus, our son stopped by to do some work for us and he brought our grandsons for a visit. The boys enjoyed sitting on the deck feeding the Cardinal and watching the hummingbirds. Some time was spent eating snacks and watching a car race cartoon.
I am linking up to Heidrun's Mosaic Monday I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post.
Thanks to all my visitors and for your past and present comments. Stop back to see any replies to your comments. I appreciate everyone who loves and respects wildlife. Thank you for linking up a critter post.
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Wishing everyone a great day and a happy new week!
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